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Monday, June 23, 2014

Vatican City, 21 June 2014 (VIS) –
This morning a letter was published, written in Latin and dated 9
June, by which Pope Francis appoints Cardinal Jozef Tomko, prefect
emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, as
his special envoy to the 25th anniversary of the liberation of the
Greek Catholic eparchy of Mukachevo, scheduled to take place at the
major seminary of Uzhhorod, Ukraine, on 28 June 2014.

The pontifical mission to accompany the
cardinal is composed of Fr. Pavlov Sabov, former priest of the
parishes of Strypa and Jarok in Uzhhorod and currently collaborating
priest at the Cathedral of Uzhhorod, Fr. Vasyl Chvasta, priest of the
Church of Divine Mercy at Uzhhorod and syncellus for the laity.